Chiara Di Serio and Margot Neger (neger.margot AT ucy.ac.cy) have organised an international conference on ‘Letters and Authority: The Epistolary Communication of Rulers and Religious Leaders in Antiquity and the Middle Ages’.
Date: 29-30 May 2026. Venue: University of Cyprus, Dept. of Classics and Philosophy.
Étienne Wolff will be speaking on ‘A Bishop Writes to Bishops: the Episcopal Letters of Sidonius Apollinaris’. The keynote speaker is Roy Gibson. Sessions include Alexander and Caesar, Plutarch, The letters of late antique emperors, Administration and fiscality in late antiquity, Episcopal letters and Byzantine letters.
Download the full programme here.
